There is debate over whether "Love and Rocket" is 403 or 404. They settle on 403.

In the animatic David X. Cohen does the voice of the Beastie Boy who falls into the crowd. At this stage they haven’t had a chance to record all the characters (especially guest stars) so someone will do a temp. voice so the animators can get to work.

David is usually the most likely person to do this

In this animatic there is a cut scene where Bender does a stage dive.

Claudia Katz thinks that this animatic goes for 26 min. when really it is 25 min.

The animators get really annoyed when they have to cut out 4 min of stuff that they have drawn for the episode.

David is singing with Editor Paul Calder when filling in for the Beastie Boys.

All of the commentators think that they did a better job then the actual Beastie Boys.

One of the main reasons they did this episode is to establish the personality of Bender.

David brought along some of the earliest notes on Bender

7 April, 1997: A robot of some kind. This character has to be really good. Could be very popular. A fraternity-guy type robot? Bear in mind super-nerd ‘Star Trek’ characters Spock and Data. Could be: rude, greedy, possibly the ship's accountant, gambling problem (often tries to make a bet whenever odds of some event past 50%), curses a lot, a fan of robot pornography (which consists of circuit diagrams, binary codes etc), or maybe smoke cigars or pipes.

Joked as a John DiMaggio type.

They had many tryouts for Bender’s voice. David was one of them.

They talked about this in the other commentary, according to David.

The food looks really good.

There are 3 - 6,000 drawings in an average animatic. There are 20 – 50,000 in an actual episode.

August – September, 1997: Called ‘Robo’. Male robot aged 40. Robo is the ship’s cook as well as an expert on alien cultures. Although not programmed to cook, he does this job because he enjoys it blah, blah, blah. He has a minimal sense to taste but is able to stick his arms in boiling water or fire which is useful in the kitchen. He is an expert on the rituals, cultures and languages of many aliens and robots, but some of his information is out-dated and mistakes occur. Drinks rocket-fuel and inhales cigar-smoke for fuel. He has many vices. Compulsive gambler (unable to resist a bet). Enjoys drinking, smoking, cursing, robot pornography. Robo is classified by the designation Mega-Brain, meaning he theoretically has the mental power of one-million human brains. However, most of the brains are pretty stupid. Basically, he can calculate a tremendous feedback but has no better insight to human nature then anyone else.

They love how Bender wears a towel.

The Trump Trapezoid didn’t look like a trapezoid in this so they changed it.

Jägermeister and pens oil is John’s favourite drink as well as Bender’s.